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Re:How 2 Guys Built Power in 8 Months for Less Than $500 on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:10AM (#21545972)
The team was frugal and did what they could on their own to arrive at success. Less than $500.00 came out of their bank account and the time was spent willingly.
Re:How 2 Guys Built Power in 8 Months for Less Than $500 on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:06AM (#21545942)
I think it was all the elements of the article that led to success. For example, the partnerships would not have formed if the team had not created a great game in a timely fashion.

Show HN: Netblast – Made a video game and looking for feedback

Thought you might like to check out an indie game my team and I are making called Netblast. Here's some raw gameplay footage to give you an idea of what the game is like:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUwB1-KpGYYPlease let me know what you think and if you would be interested in joining our Discord community and hopping into a match sometime:https://discord.gg/RGu3Avc

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Interesting observation. Thank you.
Just wanted to stop by and say thank you to everyone who provided feedback. Our website is now MUCH better because of it. We're still working away to get everything implemented and are proud to have made Hacker News a part of our story!
Thank you very much sir.

Very sorry about the registration form not working. I will look into it further.

Can you please ensure that you have filled out the following form fields:

+ email + first name + last name + password + avatar

I think it may be possible that one of the fields above wasn't filled out however it's also entirely possible that they were and our system isn't working properly.

Regarding the social logins, we have been asked this before. I will add it to the list and have it done ASAP.

Thank you for the feedback!

We will add a "New or Used" option when creating a product and display that.

In your particular case, the clock is actually brand new but unwrapped :]

Excellent feedback!

We will make the avatar optional during registration. If you don't select an avatar, we will just use a default round allBST logo image. You will be able to update your avatar at a later date in the account section.

This will be done tomorrow.

Thank you for taking the time to let us know about this.

Excellent feedback!

Based on yours and other users' feedback below, we are going to rework the home page so that it accomplishes the following:

1. Use newly designed interface elements for groups that, inside of them, shows the latest 4 to 6 products last posted in that group. In other words, you will basically see a large square, representing a group, with a bunch of small squares inside of it (representing the latest products in it). This will get rid of the spammy look and also emphasize the fact that the elements on the home page are actually groups of products.

2. Modify the header section to explain what the site does and what is unique about it.

I will be working on these items tomorrow and should have them completed by the end of the day.

Thank you for taking the time to provide your very constructive feedback.

UPDATE:

1. Error popups fixed.

2. Attempted to fix tile overlapping problem by adding in a font-loaded event listener that does a tile re-layout when triggered. Apparently, asynchronously loading fonts can cause the overlapping problem. Hard to replicate. Hopefully we don't see this again.

3. Coming up with new layout for the home page to better describe what is going on.

Thank you for the screenshot of the bugs. Very helpful!

The stacked tiles is a major bug that has been tough to fix.

Email error is new and I will fix that right now.

I will attempt to make the tiles on the home page more obvious as to their function. Totally agree with you.

Thanks so much for the valuable feedback.

allBST is a brand new "Buy, Sell, Trade" platform looking for its "first pioneering users." Create a group, post some products, invite your friends, provide feedback in the comments!
Re:Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback on Thursday December 12, 2013 @05:12PM (#6897646)
Yeah, I'm going to start working on that today. I think bloggers will be very interested considering that it's a great way to monetize their blog as well as receive awesome articles to provide to their reader base.
Re:Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback on Thursday December 12, 2013 @05:09PM (#6897639)
All blogs show their Alexa ranking which is calculated by how many unique visitors per day the blog receives combined with how many page views it gets. For example, an Alexa ranking of #1 means it's the most popular site on the Internet where an Alexa ranking of #1,000,000 might mean the blog gets about 200 unique visitors per day with about 1,000 page views.

Therefore, by looking at the Alexa ranking, you can get a really good idea as to how much traffic you'll get. The price per article will be a function of a blog's Alexa ranking.

Re:Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @03:22PM (#6890393)
Good point. I think there is a fine line to walk with regards to Google's concept of a link scheme.

In the case of Trafomatch, the links won't be embedded in the article with keyword-rich anchor links. There will only be a section at the bottom of the article with a link to article writer's site for more information.

The link at the bottom of the article will be approved/vouched for by the blog site owners. Furthermore, blog site owners will only select excellent articles that fit within the context of their blog to keep their user base happy and engaged.

With all this, I think Trafomatch will fall on the good side of a link scheme analysis.

Also, even if no links are provided do to a negative link scheme analysis, website owners will still get a lot of traffic from the blog reader base itself.

Re:Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @03:14PM (#6890346)
I'm going to manually email them myself at first. The ones that decide to use it will hopefully do a blog post on it furthering the concept's reach more autonomously. Over time, as it gains traction, the site should start to promote itself.

Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback

Hey Everyone,To start, I'd like to say that it's my hobby to design and program websites and web applications. My ultimate objective is to make something really valuable such that it generates enough income that I can work on it full time. The problem is I usually make things that most people just don't want.So, this time around, I thought it would be cool to propose the idea first using a...

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Show HN: TitanPass Getting Started Video

A bunch of people asked me to make a getting started video for TitanPass. I was so excited to release the application that I left the entire user experience by the wayside. Please check out the video at www.titanpass.com or www.vimeo.com/72562670. Thanks for all the feedback so far and I hope you enjoy the video. Please let me know what you think.

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Re:Show HN: Cloud Based Password Vault on Friday August 16, 2013 @01:02AM (#6222257)
Cool, thanks for the feedback. TitanPass is extremely secure and only you have access to your data. I made it cloud based because it was a requirement to have a highly centralized vault. The whole application is made in PHP so I won't be able to make a decentralized native app from it. Hope you still get a chance to try it out and again, thanks so much for your feedback.

Show HN: Cloud Based Password Vault

Just wanted to show off my latest creation called TitanPass (www.titanpass.com). It's free and allows you to securely store and access all of your website login credentials in one place.Some cool features:1. One click website logins similar to 1Password using a bookmarklet. 2. Works on any device or O/S. 3. Simple and clean administration interface. 4. A paid ability for companies to manage...

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Re:Ask HN: How does your business manage passwords? on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @11:11PM (#6061567)
As a single founder startup, I store all my passwords in text files buried in my My Documents folder. No one besides myself uses my computer so I haven't had any issues thus far. Not the safest route but then again it's just me.

I don't have any product recommendations but I do have a question: What exact features are you looking for in a team password management product?

Show HN: New Website Feedback

Hey Everyone,I put this in the wrong section last time, sorry. Just wanted to get some feedback on my new website at www.sugarpixels.com. It's supposed to be an easier way to find better gifts.Looking forward to your feedback...Thanks,Kevin Bikhazi

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Ask HN: Help With An Experiment

I'm running an experiment to help shock my image posting website (http://www.ep1x.com) into growth. If this works, then this method can be used by others to help shock their projects into growth.The Experiment:If each person who reads this message goes to Ep1x and posts one good image and sends an email to two or more friends asking them to do the same, then it will start the website like...

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